The Darkness Below

by Rod MacDonald

From the best-selling author of four classic UK diving books comes The Darkness Below – a collection of absorbing adventures gained from a lifetime in diving. Rod takes the reader on a spellbinding and gripping journey from first beginnings as a novice scuba diver. Told in intimate detail with a beguiling sense of self-deprecating humour, he recounts epic dives on some of the most fabulous shipwrecks around the world. Terrifying first explorations of virgin shipwrecks far offshore, lost in time and enshrouded in darkness, cram the pages.

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sunflower · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a book I read in little bites at first, but which became more absorbing as I got further into it. It consists of multiple factual accounts of wreck explorations, written by an ex-lawyer with a passion for diving. He starts off on air, then as he gets progressively deeper and has a couple of scares with the bends, moves on to trimix and then a rebreather. He and his diving friends seem quite fearless in their detective work, often going out in IRB's laden with dive gear in less than ideal conditions, and diving virgin wrecks predominantly around the coast of Scotland, many of which are unidentified, or incorrectly identified and located. There's a fair bit of detail about the wrecks themselves, how they dived them, and the tec bits about his gear.
What comes through is his absolute passion for wrecks, his knowledge about ships and their layout, but also his interest in sharing the information with the wider diving community and those who were on the vessels when then went down, or their descendants. (really 3 and a half stars)

[Clare · Rating 5 out of 5]

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